Creedence Clearwater Revival
Bayou rock from the East Bay — and somehow it worked.
John Fogerty wrote about a Mississippi he'd never lived in and made it sound like home for everyone. CCR in their four-year peak put out seven albums and a string of singles — 'Fortunate Son,' 'Proud Mary,' 'Bad Moon Rising,' 'Lodi' — that became the working-man's American songbook.
- Howlin' Wolf
- Little Richard
- Hank Williams
- The Band
- Tom Petty
- Bruce Springsteen
Pull the thread
USA · 1944 — 1997
Townes Van Zandt
The patron saint of the kitchen-table songwriters.
USA · 1953 — present
Lucinda Williams
Louisiana made audible.
USA · 1978 — present
Sturgill Simpson
Walked into Nashville with a haircut and an attitude.
USA · 1991 — present
Tyler Childers
Appalachia, unfiltered and unembarrassed.
USA · 1988 — present
Sierra Ferrell
Sings like she found the songs in a creek bed.
USA · 1984 — present
Charley Crockett
Keeps the bones, throws out the gristle.
USA · 1979 — present
Jason Isbell
Wrote 'Southeastern' and meant it.
USA · 1983 — present
Margo Price
Outlaw country with a working-class spine.